MySQL Issue

[FyxTheShinigami]

When I try to view my profile when it has an avatar, the page lags at loading and then comes up with this text:

Warning: getimagesize(http://i.imgur.com/c4xWGxE.png): could not make seekable - http://i.imgur.com/c4xWGxE.png in /home/u215232890/public_html/classes/class_image.php on line 114 Fatal error: Uncaught exception 'Exception' with message 'Database error 2006 - MySQL server has gone away' in /home/u215232890/public_html/classes/class_database.php:213 Stack trace: #0 /home/u215232890/public_html/classes/class_database.php(142): Database->_query('owned_adoptable...', Array, 'select', 'owner = 'Fyx'') #1 /home/u215232890/public_html/classes/class_userprofile.php(149): Database->select('owned_adoptable...', Array, 'owner = 'Fyx'') #2 /home/u215232890/public_html/classes/class_userprofile.php(79): UserProfile->showalladopts() #3 /home/u215232890/public_html/view/profileview.php(77): UserProfile->display('adopts') #4 /home/u215232890/public_html/classes/class_frontcontroller.php(100): ProfileView->view() #5 /home/u215232890/public_html/index.php(74): FrontController->render() #6 /home/u215232890/public_html/index.php(78): IndexController::main() #7 {main} thrown in /home/u215232890/public_html/classes/class_database.php on line 213

My database is not "away" and the information including the password and database name and host are correct.

Any ideas on how to fix?
Thanks.

[Kyttias]

If it only happens once, no big deal. If it always happens, that's another story.

What hosting are you on? It's definitely settings on their end. Their MySQL server provides only a small window for timeouts (probably to prevent overloading their servers from everyone they're hosting). This error is occur due to the expiration of a setting called 'wait_timeout'.

The best thing you can do is tell/ask them about it. Shared/free hosting probably won't change their settings for you - you get what you pay for.